netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: phy: disregard "Clause 22 registers present" bit in get_phy_c45_devs_in

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Date:   Sat, 9 Feb 2019 09:40:42 +0100
From:   Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: phy: disregard "Clause 22 registers
 present" bit in get_phy_c45_devs_in_pkg

On 09.02.2019 08:11, David Miller wrote:
> From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
> Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 19:25:22 +0100
> 
>> Bit 0 in register 1.5 doesn't represent a device but is a flag that
>> Clause 22 registers are present. Therefore disregard this bit when
>> populating the device list. If code needs this information it
>> should read register 1.5 directly instead of accessing the device
>> list.
>> Because this bit doesn't represent a device don't define a
>> MDIO_MMD_XYZ constant, just define a MDIO_DEVS_XYZ constant for
>> the flag in the device list bitmap.
>>
>> v2:
>> - make masking of bit 0 more explicit
>> - improve commit message
>>
Andrew had few further review comments and based on that I prepared a v3,
this time as series of three patches. What you just applied was splitted
to two patches and patch 1 is new. But this shouldn't be a big deal.
We can keep what was applied and I will rebase patch 1 and resubmit it.

>> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
> 
> Applied, thanks Heiner.
> 
Heiner